Changing Python Process Titles

Davyd wanted a way of changing process titles under python.

I've always used proctitle, which can rewrite the sys.argv, aka, char**argv array. And was quite aggravated that I didn't know how to change the process command name, which is what killall uses to kill processes.

So after being shown how to do it in mono, I found the docs, wrote it in C, put it in proctitle's _proctitle.c and created a patch for 0.0.2.

Now I can stop using pkill -f and go back to using killall. :)
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